But in July, the Competition Commission published a critical report on Milk Marque, the biggest farm co-operative selling group in Britain, which sells 40% of milk produced by dairy farmers.
Aside from convenience stores and some niche sellers, the territory's supermarket business is controlled by two huge chains: Park'n Shop, the stores owned by Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Wellcome, which belongs to Asia's biggest grocer, Jardine Matheson-controlled DairyFarm.